The Tirap region and meetings court in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday indicted two NSCN (Khaplang) individuals for coercion and condemned them to three-year thorough detainment.
The D-Company of the 16 Assam Rifles headed by Major Ajit Chaudhary had on May 5, 2017, led an inquiry activity at Kamka town under Pongchau Circle of Longding locale circumscribing Myanmar, authorities said.
They captured two NSCN (K) individuals – Wangfai Wangsa, a Myanmar national and Kekho Homkhu, an inhabitant of Lazu town in Tirap locale.
The team had made a cottage on a jhum plot their base for gathering house expense and blackmail from Konsa, Kannu, Jagan and Khasa towns. The soldiers recouped a 9 mm and a 7.65 mm gun with a magazine and three live adjusts each close to seven coercion receipts and other implicating material.
The two were given over to the Longding police headquarters alongside the held onto materials and a FIR was documented by Nayak Subedar Santa Bahadur Chetry of the Assam Rifles.
The examination was begun by sub-auditor B Lukham of Longding police headquarters and taken over by monitor A Chama, official accountable for Pongchau police headquarters. The charge-sheet was later recorded against the blamed couple by Longding’s representative director for police L Singpho.
On finish of the preliminary, Tirap locale and meetings judge H Kashyap indicted Wangsa and Homkhu for blackmail and condemned them to three-year thorough detainment and a fine of Rs. 10,000 each.
Wangsa was likewise seen as liable of unlawfully entering India under Section 14 of the Foreigners’ Act. The appointed authority requested his expulsion to Myanmar after consummation of his jail term.
The becoming aware of the case was led for all intents and purposes utilizing video conferencing because of the Covid-19 lockdown, authorities included.